Read William Shakespeare, "My Mistress's Eyes are Nothing like the Sun," and answer the questions that follow.

1. Find the chapter about rhythm and meter and determine the rhythm and meter of this poem.

2. How is the Mistress described in the first twelve lines of the poem.

3. Do the last two lines change your opinion of how the speaker perceives his Mistress? Why or why not?

4. Where and how do you see the speaker using satire?

Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.